So some of my thoughts for constructing a finite field of order 27 are making me think of a field with $p^n$ elements, where $p = 3$ and $n = 3$ such that we want a cubic polynomial in $\mathbb{F}_3[X]$ that does not factor.
Could this be thought of as looking for a cubic polynomial in $\mathbb{F}_3[X]$ with no roots in $\mathbb{F}_3$? Could this polynomial work: $x^3 + 2x^2 + 1$ ?
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